"I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time."

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Source : Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

Deborah Tall

#Identity Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.”
“A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.”
“I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.”
“It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.”

Source : Terri Irwin (2012). “My Steve”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.”
“Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.”
“Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reproved; I knew they lived and moved Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet The same heart beats in every human breast!”

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